He told an employee to open the safe, and the employee put cash from the register into a brown paper Starbucks bag, police said.

An officer watching the robbery from a surveillance camera in a back room came out and announced his position, and Turner took off out the south door of the coffee shop, according to the report.

Officers followed him and arrested him in a front yard nearby, according the report. The object in his pocket turned out to be a cell phone.

Turner allegedly confessed to robbing the Starbucks two other times and a CVS across the street three times. He told police he chose those locations because they were close to his home in the 10300 block of South Hale Avenue, according to the report.